Tokyo 2020 Olympics

The Individual ticket sales process for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games is now open in Australia. The Request Phase window will run from today May 10 until May 31.
Pricing will be posted shortly so that fans will have the ability to adjust their submissions based on price at any...

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board today approved the competition schedule by sessionfor the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020.
The action-packed programme will feature a record 33 sports and 339 events and will run from 24 July until 9 August 2020.
Ahead of the Opening Ceremony, preliminary events will kick off with...

Japanese car manufacturer Toyota will provide 16 support robots across the Olympic and Paralympic Games to assist sports fans with tasks such as carrying food and drink, guiding people to their seats and providing event information.
"Robot technology will help deliver a safer and smoother Games and, while robots will be deployed only...

The Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee announced that smoking will not be permitted at any of the Olympic or Paralympic venues for the duration of the Games. The ban will be extended to heated tobacco products and other vaping devices.
At the London 2012 and Rio 2016 Games, smoking was not permitted inside indoor competition venues, but...

Tokyo’s New National Stadium will hold a crowd of 68,000 people next year at the 2020 Olympics, organizers said Monday when venue capacities were announced.
Ajinomoto Stadium, which will host soccer and rugby, was listed at 48,000, while the Tokyo Aquatics Center will be able to hold 15,000.
Due to cost...

In 1964, the Tokyo Olympics transformed Japan after the country had been devastated by the effects and aftermath of the Second World war. 56 years later and the 2020 Tokyo Olympics are aiming to be the most innovative in history.
The three core aims of the Tokyo Organising Committee (TOCOG)...

General tickets for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics will go on sale as early as late April this year, it has been learned.
The Games' organizing committee is making final arrangements with an eye on promoting ticket sales in tandem with the Golden Week holiday period and heightening the mood for...

The organising committees for the Olympic games Tokyo 2020 and Olympic winter games Beijing 2022 recently signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) under which both organisations will work together to ensure that they each deliver fantastic Olympic games and promote the Olympic and Paralympic movements in east Asia, in the spirit of Olympism.
In addition to sharing...

16 months before Japan is set to host the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, the cost of putting on the next Games has almost quadrupled since the country successfully bid for the Olympics in 2013, and a national government report indicates the final budget could exceed $25 billion.
When Tokyo won the...

In addition to sourcing its Olympic Games’ medals by recycling discarded smartphones and other small consumer electronics, Tokyo 2020 organizers are also now planning to use recycled aluminum for the Olympic torches used in the pre-Games relay.
The aluminum to be recycled is expected to come from temporary housing constructed in Japan’s Fukushima,...